ballerina-platform / plugin-intellij

Ballerina extension for IntelliJ IDEA.

Ballerina plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

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The IntelliJ Ballerina plugin provides the Ballerina development capabilities in IntelliJ IDEA. Click the links below for instructions on how to download, install, and use the features of the IntelliJ plugin.

• Installing the plugin
  • Installing using the ZIP file
• Using the plugin
  • Setting up Ballerina SDK for an existing project
  • Creating a new Ballerina file
• Using the features of the plugin
  • Running ballerina programs
  • Running ballerina tests
  • Import modules on-the-fly
  • Find usage
  • Go to definition
  • Formatting
  • Signature help
  • Quick documentation
  • Code completions
  • Live templates
  • Code actions
  • Error diagnostics
  • Spell checking
  • Code folding
• Developer Guide
  • Testing/Debugging the plugin using IntelliJ

Release Versions Schema

Below you can see the plugin versions that correspond to the versions of the IntelliJ Platform.

Plugin Version	Platform Version Compatibility
0.8.0 - 0.8.2	IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3 - 2016.4
0.8.3 - 0.981.0	IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3 - 2017.2
0.982.0 - 0.991.0	IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3 - 2018.2
0.991.1 - 1.2.1	IntelliJ IDEA 2018.3 - 2019.3
1.2.2 - 1.2.x	IntelliJ IDEA 2018.3 - 2020.2
2.0.0	IntelliJ IDEA 2022.0 - 2024.1

Useful links

• Use the [e-mail] mailing list to discuss code changes to the Ballerina project.
• Chat live with us on our Discord server.